Quotes About Coexistence

We belong to a tradition where we treat the entire universe as our family. For me, globalisation is the manifestation of nationalisation. There is no contradiction between the two.

Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family.

My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths.

We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.

I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Humans did not want to know about non-humans. Funny thing was most non-humans felt the same way, happy to hide their abilities and talents to avoid witch hunts and wholesale slaughter.

In the Father's house we shall meet Buddhists and Jews, Muslims and Protestants.

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.

Today, I'm a conservationist because I believe that my species doesn't have the right or option to determine the fate of other species, even ones that inspire fear in us.

Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as 'them' but 'us'.

Beauty and fear make uneasy companions

The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.

Life can be sweet if we just try to understand each other's journey.

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they have all learned to live in the same box.

We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box.

perhaps indeed there exists but a single intelligence of which everyone is a co-tenant, an intelligence towards which each of us from out of his own separate body turns his eyes, as int a theatre where, if everyone has his own separate seat, there is on the other hand but a single stage.

In a world thronged with monsters and with gods, we are barely conscious of tranquillity.

For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their warfare ensure the continuity of existence.

Imagine a world where all religious groups can simply freeze their beliefs and not have to interact with the culture.)